purgatorium

See also: purgatórium

Latin

Etymology

Post-Classical substantive use of purgātōrius (“cleansing, purgative”), from purgō (“cleanse, purify”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /puːr.ɡaːˈtoː.ri.um/, [puːrɡäːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pur.ɡaˈto.ri.um/, [purɡäˈt̪ɔːrium]

Noun

pūrgātōrium n (genitive pūrgātōriī or pūrgātōrī); second declension

a purgative
act or means of cleansing
(Ecclesiastical) purgatory

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūrgātōrium	pūrgātōria
Genitive	pūrgātōriī pūrgātōrī¹	pūrgātōriōrum
Dative	pūrgātōriō	pūrgātōriīs
Accusative	pūrgātōrium	pūrgātōria
Ablative	pūrgātōriō	pūrgātōriīs
Vocative	pūrgātōrium	pūrgātōria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

Descendants

Descendants of purgatorium in other languages

→ Albanian: purgator
→ Catalan: purgatori
→ English: purgatory
→ Esperanto: purgatorio
→ French: purgatoire
→ Galician: purgatorio
→ Hungarian: purgatórium
→ Italian: purgatorio
→ Occitan: purgatòri
→ Piedmontese: purgateuri
→ Portuguese: purgatório
→ Romanian: purgatóriu
→ Sardinian: purgadoriu
→? Sicilian: prijatoriu (+ prijari (“to pray”))
→ Spanish: purgatorio
→ Tagalog: purgatoryo

References

purgatorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

purgatorium n (definite singular purgatoriet, indefinite plural purgatorier, definite plural purgatoria or purgatoriene)

(Christianity) purgatory
Synonym: skjærsild

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

purgatorium n (definite singular purgatoriet, indefinite plural purgatorium, definite plural purgatoria)

(Christianity) purgatory
Synonym: skjærseld

Romanian

Noun

purgatorium n (plural purgatoriumuri)

Obsolete form of purgatoriu.

Declension

Declension of purgatorium

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) purgatorium	purgatoriumul	(niște) purgatoriumuri	purgatoriumurile
genitive/dative	(unui) purgatorium	purgatoriumului	(unor) purgatoriumuri	purgatoriumurilor
vocative	purgatoriumule		purgatoriumurilor

References

purgatorium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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